There’s a big birthday coming up in Iowa in about a month.
This place we call home — these 55,800 square miles of farm fields, wooded land, and clusters
It was an early spring morning in 1895 when two strangers in a buggy made their way into town at Adel just west of Des Moines. By the time they left, two town folk lay close to death and the bank was short an undetermined amount of cash.